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Peer reviewedHalporn, Barbara – Library Quarterly, 1984
Describes problems faced by late medieval libraries during period of transition from the manuscript to the printed book. A translation of a manual created for a Swiss monastery circa 1520 provides information on librarian's duties, arrangement of the library, procedures for inventorying and cataloging, circulation, and public services. (31…
Descriptors: Archives, Guides, Library Administration, Library Catalogs
Download full textWang, Chih – 1995
This cumulative report serves to keep a record of University of Guam Learning Resources (LR) activities, identify milestones in LR's history, review LR's past progress, and on the basis of the review results, plan for the future. It contains five major sections: "List of LR Administrators"; "List of Important LR Activities";…
Descriptors: Budgets, Enrollment, Faculty, History
Hinsch, Neil – 1987
The Sydney Public Library began as the Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room which opened in Sydney on December 1, 1827, with 1,000 volumes. The Municipal Council of Sydney took possession of the library in 1909. The library evolved from a closed access, fixed shelf position library to an open access system in 1910. A complete…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Librarians, Library Administration, Library Collections
Volz, Edward J. – School Library Journal, 1991
Discussion of music censorship provides a chronology of banned music from 1850 to the present. Highlights include reasons for music censorship, including lyrics that concern politics, sex, drugs, or death; rewriting song lyrics; radio air play versus sales; warning labels; First Amendment principles; and suggestions to defuse censorship in…
Descriptors: Audiodisks, Audiotape Recordings, Censorship, Library Administration
Processing Services 1905: Putting the Library's House in Order and the Country's Cataloging in Gear.
Peer reviewedSmith, David A. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1985
In 1905, Library of Congress Processing Services had about 100 employees in 2 divisions: Catalog and Order. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress since 1899, cataloging chief James Hanson, and chief classifier Charles Martel were engaged in restoring order to library's collections and centralizing cataloging activity for entire country. (41…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, History, Library Administration
Peer reviewedZeng, Lei; Zhang, Wei-Ping – International Library Review, 1991
Two articles discuss Chinese libraries and materials: one reviews the role of bibliographic utilities in the bibliographic control of Chinese language materials in U.S. libraries, and one examines characteristics of administration in academic libraries in China from both historical perspective and current practice. (64 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Utilities, Cataloging, Chinese
Colson, John Calvin – 1983
Intended to contribute to a better understanding of research library development in the United States, this report describes the history of the development of the library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1904 to 1918. It is based on records of the relationships between three principals--John R. Commons and Richard T. Ely (members…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Development, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation
Lester, Marilyn A. – 1995
This document provides a history of the National College of Education libraries from 1920 through 1978. The research process consisted of five major activities: (1) locating and collecting information from written sources; (2) conducting oral history interviews; (3) extracting information from audio tapes; (4) organizing the information from all…
Descriptors: Change, Educational Television, Enrollment, Higher Education
Ezzell, Joline, Ed. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Nine articles in this issue cover topics currently being discussed in serials librarianship: historical development, impact of technology, relationship of librarians and publishers of serials, collection development, management of serials automation, serials conversion, automated serials control, MARC format for holdings and locations, a union…
Descriptors: History, Librarians, Library Administration, Library Automation
